The Education Business have made this course available in Birmingham and London:

Birmingham: 18th May and 15th June.

London: 11th May and 8th June

This full day course is presented to all educators interested in teaching Islam and in the future role of Religious Education in relation to SMSC (Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural Education).

This tailored course facilitates the best practice outlined in Ofsted’s RE report Realising the Potential and gives each teacher the confidence to teach the Islamic component of the curicullum.

In addition, attendees will be provided with materials which will enable them to utilise the Cooperative Learning techniques demonstrated during the course in conjunction with existing lesson plans and materials throughout the curriculum.

The course is taught through two modules:

Primary objectives of Module A:

• demonstrate a series of fully transferable and scalable enquiry exercises into a world religion
• provide teachers with tools to achieve religious literacy through enquiry
• present relevant high level materials on Islam to allow participating teachers to:
  • experience some of the challenges of enquiry-based fact-finding from a student’s perspective

Primary objectives of Module B:

1. demonstrate fully transferable and scalable enquiry exercises into personal belief and identity, building on religious literacy
2. 2.manage safe enquiry into controversial areas of Islam, such as gender issues and jihad. This specific course uses medie content following the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

Secondary objectives include collaborative reflections on method and content; on the role and impact of RE and SMSC in schools and society at large; the role of religion in contemporary society; and the role of the teacher in enquiry-based learning.